Tag: biotechnology: general introduction

A- Electrochemical biosensors are simple tools which are utilized to determine the measurement of electronic current or conductance changes done by the bio-electrodes. The electrochemical sensor converts the electrochemical information into an analytical signal. This type of biosensor is generally made up of two basic parts - a biological component & an electronic component.

DNA biosensors have various applications, commonly used for medical diagnostics, forensic science, agriculture, or even environmental clean-up efforts. It function as the two strands of DNA stick to each other by virtue of chemical attractive forces and that is, two strands that match up at every nucleotide position gives rise to a fluorescent signal that is then transmitted to a signal generator.

Electrochemical biosensors are those biosensors that are mostly based on enzymes and catalyses the reaction that produces or consumes electrons. The reactions are redox types and the enzymes that catalyze these oxidations are called dehydrogenases.

In molecular biology, biochips are essentially miniaturized laboratories that can perform hundreds or thousands of simultaneous biochemical reactions. Biochips enable researchers to quickly screen large numbers of biological analytes for a variety of purposes, from disease diagnosis to detection of bioterrorism agents.

Biotechnology is the use of living systems and organisms to develop or make products, or "any technological application that uses biological systems, living organisms or derivatives thereof, to make or modify products or processes for specific use. For thousands of years, humankind has used biotechnology in agriculture, food production, and medicine. 

Application of biotechnology occurs in agriculture, biomedicine and environmental field.